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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 History Chapter 3 - From Gathering to Growing Food

Chapter 3 - From Gathering to Growing Food


Question 1
Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?

Answer The people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time as they have to take care of their crops and it takes so many months to bear fruits.

Question 2
Look at the table on page 25. If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, which are the places she should have visited?

 Answer Neinuo should have to visit Mehrgara and Koldihwa to eat rice.

Question 3
Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?

 Answer Archeologists have found bones of wild aals form a lower level of Mehrgarh and bones of domestic animals from the upper level. This proves that people in Mehrgarh earlier were hunters, later on, they turned into herders.

Question 4
State whether true or false:
(a) Millets have been found at Hallur.
(b) People in Burzahom lived in rectangular houses.
(c) Chirand is a site in Kashmir.
(d) Jadeite, found in Daojali Hading, may have been
brought from China.

 Answer
 (a) True
 (b) False
 (c) False
 (d) True

Question 5
List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.

 Answer
Ways
Herders
Hunter-Gatherers
Life
Nomadic
Settled
Dependency on meat
On wild animals
On domestic animals
Food Supply
Not Secure
More secure

Question 6
Make a list of all the animals mentioned in the table (page 25). For each one, describe what they may have been used for.

 Answer
Animals
Used for
Goat
Milk
Sheep
Wool
Buffalo
Milk
Dog
Guarding
Ox
Farm work
Pig
Meat



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